Yes, breaking the nasty habit of smoking cigarettes is a long and trying process. Yet, quite a few quitting smoking benefits can be enjoyed within only a few days or even hours after you put out your last cigarette.
Heart and Blood Pressure Dropping
Only 20 minutes after quitting your heart and blood pressure will drop. Remember, high blood pressure is a pretty serious condition which may lead to heart failure, coronary heart diseases, strokes and many other health issues. After about a month blood pressure will return to a normal level.
Carbon Monoxide Leaving the Body
Smoking poisons your body with carbon monoxide. Carbon monoxide is a taste- and odorless gas which is highly toxic. Within the first few hours after quitting carbon monoxide levels in your body will drop to normal. Considering that this gas is so highly poisonous and that a smoker willingly applies this poison to his body, it is easy to understand that this is a major immediate quitting smoking benefit.
Nicotine Will Leave Your Body
Within only 8 hours of not smoking the remaining nicotine will have fallen to only around 6% of the peak levels of a smoker. Just like carbon monoxide nicotine is a highly poisonous. Did you know that nicotine it only takes 0.5 milligrams of nicotine per kilogram weight for a human to be lethal? You do not want this poison in your body, quit smoking now and imagine how much better you will feel only a few hours later.
Less Stench
Let’s not beat around the bush: smoke stinks, and ‘old’ smoke lingering on your clothes, in your hair, and on your hands even more so. While this is not as serious as the poisoning of your body, smelling better certainly one of the more tangible immediate quitting smoking benefits.
